The Sun. — London, England, 1838-03-29 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. filer Majesty took en equestrian ri,le yesterday > attended by Miss Cavendish, Lady llar.let Clive, Baroness Lehzem Lady. Mary Stopford, Marquis . ' of Conynham, Lord Byron, Elrl of th'oridge, Colonel Cavendish, Sir Frederick S!ovin, and the llon. Colonel Grey. Her 'Majesty rode to Richmond Park on Tuesday. Her Majesty had a dinner party last evening. The corn- Pan)' included the Duchess of Northumberland, Fart bF Aberdeen, Viscount and Viscountess Powersceert, Viscount Melbourne, the Lord Chamberlain, Sir Henry Wheatley, lion. Colonel and Mrs. Grey, Mr. George Byng, M. P., and Mrs. Byng. The Band of the Grenadier Re! - !iment of Foot Guards at tended during the dinner at the Palace. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager took an airing yesterday in an open carriage and four. The Duke of Cambridge gave a grand military dinner on Tuesday, at Cambridge House. The company included the Duke of Wellington, Lord Hill, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Major General Sir James Macdonald, Sir John Macdonald, Sir Willoughby Gordon, Sir Wm. Gomm, Major General GardiNer, Colonels Aitchison, D'Oyly, Fremantle, Shawe, and Bowles; Lieutenant-Colonels Frecth, Chaplin, Codring ton, Hon. F. Ashburnbam, Wigrarn, and the Hon. J. Hope, Captains Vansittart, Chisholm, Windham, Daniell, and the Hon. R. E. Boyle ; Lieutenants Mundy, Hon. F. Villiers, and Percival ; Surgeon Gilder, Assistant Surgeons Wedder burne and Robinson, and Captain Torrens. The Band of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards attended at Cambridge House during th e even i ng . The Duchess a Gloucester visited the Princess Augusta yesterday. The D'Ae of Cambridge honoured the Archbishop of York w.itb his company at dinner yesterday. Mr. Burge, Mr. Colville, and a Deputation from the West India body, had an interview with Viscount Melbourne yes terday in Downing -street. 'Dr. Jacob, Dr. Maunsell, and Dr. Carr, a Deputation from the Royal College of Surgeons, and County Infirmary Surgeons of Ireland, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday in Downing -street. Captain Dawson and Captain Alexander had interviews with Lord Glenclg yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Earl of Radnor and Lord Hill had interviews with Viscount Melbourne yesterday. Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Colvile, and a Deputation, had an in terview with Lord Glenelg yesterday. A Deputation of nearly three hundred, principally consisting of members of the Society of Friends, had an interview with Viscount Melbourne and Lord Glenclg yesterday at the residence of the Noble Viscount. The Attorney-General arrived in town yesterday evening from the Warwick Asszes. The Marquis of Lansdowne had a large party at dinner yesterday at Lansdowne House, to meet her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester. The Marchioness of Lansdowne bad afterwards an assembly. REDUCTION O' POSTAGE. A special general mee::ng of the Myphes,ter Ch am b er of Commerce and Manufactums *as hemu, as we learn from the Manclic,fkr Ciutirdian, at the office of the Chantber 'On THlrsdat.' last, "to consider the I . rssi m`ttde N obtaining a reduction of the rates rii Postage." This nteeling requires from us, on account of its import aneo, a more than ordinary notice. Some of the facts stated at it were very instructive, and will, we hop, stimu late persona in other large towns, to collect and bring for wz.rd similar information, so that the Government may be left without any excuse for postponing a most needrul reform. Other commercial and manufacturing communities must imitate the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, and sti mulate the Government, being encouraged by knowing that they will not on this point, as cm the Corn Laws, have the overwhelming power of landowners against the m , an d , may therefore, hope for success. The advantages of reducing the " rate of postage," were well illustrated by Mr. Richard Cobden, a gentleman, who is well known for some excellent political pamphlets. He stated— Our prices in our own commodities, for instance, had been reduced in that period some 30, 40, or 50, some 100 fold ; and what was the result of those reductions in price ? A great increase in the consumption, and a consequent increase in the profitable trade of the country. Thus we might adduce front our own experience a positive proof, that, if the post-office would adopt the same plan that we had found successful in prints, yarns, and calicoes, it would be followed by simi lar results as to 'profits and returns. It appeared from Mr. Rowland Hill's pamphlet, that the actual cost of the transmission of a letter from Edinburgh to London was the one-ninth part of a farthing ; and, including the expense of delivery, he estimated that one-third of a penny would cover the expense of carriage and delivery. He proposed, then, that 200 per cent. should be the profit for Go vernment, which would make the postage of each letter a penny ; and he ( Mr. Cobden) thought if that plan were adopted, judging from the results in our own trade and in the trade of the world, it would ultimately produce a greater re venue than now accrued. What was wanted was not an in creased revenue from postage, but merely that the present amount should continue to be paid. He thought it could be fairly shown, that an immense number of invoices were now enclosed in parcels with the goods, which, as a matter of course, would then be sent by post.—( Hear.) He believed there was scarcely one parcel in a thousand from Manchester that did not contain an invoice ; and if, instead of that prac tice, it became an invariable custom to send invoices through the post—( which would doubtless he the case if Mr. Hill's plan were adopted )—if the invoice were not sent by post, the party to whom the parcel was sent would not hold himself re sponsible for the goods if lost. The consequence would be, that a party ordering goods would always say, " Send your in. voice by post ;" as was now the case in London as to goods sent by smack to Edinburgh or Glasgow; otherwise the Scotch purchaser would consider himself exonerated from the respon sibility, if the parcel were lost at sea. If we had a Committee formed to ascertain what number of parcels went out of this town in one week, from which could be made an approximate estimate of the number in a year; and it might safely be said, that for each parcel one additional letter would be sent by post in the ev ent of the penny postage being adopted. Besides in voices, too, it was well known that a number of letters were sent in parcels to London ; and in this way many gentlemen in this town did not hesitate to evade the postage. He knew several houses which sent parcels three or four times a week ; and they sent the whole of their own and their friends' corres pondence by these coach parcels. Here, too, there would be an immense gain, if the postage were so low as to offer an inducement to prefer the Post-office to any other conveyance. Then, with respect to the operation of the plan on our own business—take, for instance, a fancy print trade, where an establishment was producing novelties every week. If the penny postage were universal, every house in the print business would be in the habit, on every occasion of producing a new pattern, to transmit 100 or 200 slips of this pattern to their chief customers by post, in letters, intimating that the pattern was just produced, and soli , citing orders. That would also be the case with the silk trade, in which, from the fine material and small weight of the pattern, there would be still greater facilities for sending patterns. So, in London, the fancy jewellers and other trades and in this district machine-makers, and patentees of all kinds of mechanical inventions, would send their drawings, specifications, and explanations, in circulars through the post, to all parts of the kingdom, setting forth the advan tages of the new invention, and soliciting orders. There was another very tangible mode of increasing the num ber of post letters, which had occurred to him. Ma nufacturing and commercial houses were in the habit of sending out travellers —some houses three or four Bach— and it would be a great convenience if these houses could send notices to their customers in the different towns, to say that their travellers were coming at such a time. He knew two or three old-fashioned houses in London that did so; but then, they must get large profits, and have comparatively few customers, or they could not do it. He was satisfied, from conversations which he had had with commercial travellers, that they would be glad of an inexpensive mode of sending such letters from the next town, to say, " I shall be with you to. morrow, or the next day." Such a convenience would enable travellers to do their business better and more expeditiously ; and their customers would be enabled to get their money ready, if money was due ; or if orders only were sought, to look over and see what they were likely to want. Our proximity to some large towns, which received almost the whole of their letters by carriers, coaches, and waggons—such, for instance, as Bolton and Blackburn—might enable us to show a consi derable addition in this way to letters passing through the post. The statements of Mr. Cobden were confirmed by seve ral other Gentlemen. Mr. J. FERNLEY said the statement as to the enclosure of letters in parcels applied very forcibly to those seat hence to Liverpool ; for it was a very common practice to enclose a number, say twenty invoices and receipts in one packet, and to send it by Railway, which cost a very trifling sum compared with what the postage would be. If all such invoices and re ceipts were now sent through the post, the charge would be enormous ; but if the change suggested in Mr. Hill's pamphlet were made, he had no doubt they would all be transmitted by post. Mr. Wm. NEILD said, he believed that the whole com munity felt the amount of postage to be excessive, and that every man felt that, in point of economy, he must do all in his power to evade it. Ile had tie hesitation in saying, that a large portion of the community would sacrifice five flays the amount of postage in other ways rather than pay it. But bad it been pursued by the Post-office ? No ; for the carriers beat the Post-office completely in charge, and in many cases they would deliver parcels, of course much larger in bulk, in less time than the Post-office. Some years ago the Post office regulations were considered a credit to the country; but how had they kept pace with other institutions ? They had either stood still or retrograded, while every thing else had gone onward most rapidly.—( Hear.) What gentleman who had been charged with a letter from private friends, which hu was bound to deliver personally, but would give five times the amount of the postage, rather than be at the trouble of delivering it himself? It had been a custom, many years ago,- to send letters from this town by carriers ; but the Post-office at length, finding the carriers' bags as large as their own, seized them. What was the result ? Did the Post-office ga;ri by it? Not one shilling. In many cases invoices, in stead of being sent by carriers, were enclosed in the bales; the law was complied with ; the trade was inconvenienced ; while the Post-office were no gainers.—( Hear.) Mr. P. F. Wineatta• said, that the greatest number of let ters to the continent, connected with the yarn trade, were in variably sent by parcel, or amongst other samples where wool, &c. was sent to the continent. Mr. HENRY TOOTAL said,—Looking at the French Post office during the same period of 20 years, in which our Post office had not only not increased its revenue but had decreased it, the French Post-office had increased 54 per cent. He be lieved that its revenue in 14 years had increased from nearly 24,000,000 francs to 37,000 : 000. The postage in France was much less than ours : he did not exactly know in what pro portion, but it so struck him. His own letters were charged very much less than in England. The United States, in the same period of 20 years, had increased three fold, as appeared from statistical documents ; therefore, they might draw the same conclusion, and agree with Mr. Neild, that to ask for a small reduction was not asking enough. There was one remarkable fact which he would mention ; a parcel in a carrier's warehouse at Birmingham was opened, and found to contain 1,100 letters, every one of which was going in the parcel to evade the postage.—( Hear.) Mr. ROBERT GARDINER moved the fourth resolution. He said he would just beg to remark, that he was in Liverpool yesterday and took a few letters—(Laughter) —and the broker to whom he delivered them said, he hoped they would pass some strong resolutions at this meeting, for a parcel never ar rived but it entailed upon him the delivery of a dozen letters. —( Hear.) He was convinced that not a fiftieth, or even one hundredth part of the letters found their way , into the Post-office. Now, if these statements be at all well-founded and applicable to other towns as well as Manchester, as we are convinced they are, the reduction of postage on Mr. Hill's plan, would cause no loss, but a gain to the re venue. Soldiers who pay only a penny postage, are, it appears, great letter writers. Mr. GARDNER said be had had some conversation with the Blackburn Postmaster, who had mentioned to him the quan tity of letters put into that Post-office, and passing through it, from men in the army. He said, " Hang these letters I they come to nothing, and they are as much in bulk as the whole of the letters which pay." He (the Postmaster) wished they would give the army more employ, for they ap peared to have nothing to do but to write. Those letters paid a penny, and they were franked by the officers. Other people could write letters, too, if they had no more to pay for transmitting them than the soldiers. We hold it therefore to be demonstrated that the revenue would lose nothing by reducing the rate of postage to 2d. or to Id. for all distances ; but when we remember the immense social advantages which result from a well ordered post, we feel indignant that they should be stifled for one moment, by any plea of providing for the Govern ment. The Government is bound to procure the advan , and it c h arac t e rises i t t e s t e l r s a o s f ian egffio o c c i l e n p t o , s o t r f lx o , o r r s t h e w h p e e a o peopl e , balances these advan• tapes against a petty income which might be spared by at tention to economy. • We may take this opportunity to state, that the Railway Companies, in return for the privileges conceded to them by the State should convey the mails without anycharge. But if they do not, a comparatively small EUM will remunerate them, CONCERT OF ANCIENT MUSIC. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. CHESTER TRADE CV?. 5 to 1 agst Mr. Mosty n ' s Bi r dli me—o ff ere d take 5 6 to 1 agst Mr. Robinson's Whaley—offe re d t a k e 6} 13 to 2 agst General Yates's Sylvan—taken freely 10 to 1 agst Mr. Price's Wentworth—taken 1 agst M r . F ow l er ' s M ersey 1 1,) to 2 ag s t M r. Fairlie ' s Zohrab—taken 1 ! t° st Mr. Clarke's Magician to 1 Est Lord Derby's Parolles—taken 2 0 to 1 agst Mr. Houldsworth's Combat—takers 20 1 agst M r . B ower ' s Lord Stafford—offered to 1 agst Mr. Barrow's Catherina—take 25 to 1 a gst Mr. B. Collett's Conservativ 22 freely agst Captain Lamb's Chit Chat—taken freely 33 to 1 agst Mr. G. Cooke's Rachel—taken LANCASTER RACES. 1838. FIRST DAY. Sweepstakes of 20 sovs• each, with 20 added from the Fund ; for trro years old; colts, Bst, 51h; fillies, Bst. 81b. A winner once to carry 3lbs., twice, slbs extra. If walked over, the added Ir[r• will be ‘,;ithdrawn. T. Y.C. ~~'ilkiny Smith's br. f. by Voltaire, out of Amulet, by Jerry ; Mr. C. Clem of the Clough ' , by Corinthian, out of Abra h4laniNewlancl s dam ; Mr. .J. Parkins's b. e. by Liverpool, dam by Y (foaled in 1830), gr. d. by Tiresias, g. gr. d by Hamble ntan, out of Marcia. PORK SPRING MEETING, 1838. Vitt ' SOTS. sr.cosi ) DA Y. given from the Racing Fund, added to a Sweepstakes of 2.0;0v5. h. ft., and only 5, &c. Two miles. i7l o t s .I . t f agues s . ch. m. Burletta, by Ache )n, 6 yrs, 9st ; Mr. 0 6 1 :1 r n, b 4 . Miss Eltza, 4 yrs, Sst. 21b ; Mr. Robinson's b. c. Mel 7st. 101' yrs, Bst ; Mr. S. L. Fox's f. Teresa, by Langar, 4 yrs, atr. .b Mr. M. Foulis's gr. f. Eaglet, by Falcon, 4 yrs, ist. 101 b ; ftlburn's br. c. Master Castoff, by Velocipede, d. by Saladin, out of Katt, by Catton, 3 yrs 6st. The rest paid 5 goys. each. TtiE QUEEN. --Fier Majesty yesterday took an op portnnity of visiting the Hippodrome at Notting Hill. As her Majesty's suite were passing the narrow part of the Bays water-road, the party came suddenly upon the 2d Regiment of Life Guards, who had been to Wormholt Scrubs for the Purpose of exercise. The officer in command, on perceiving til e Queen, gave th e wor d , " H alt—present arms, " the men for; iing two lines th roug h w hi c h h er M a j esty passed. As the men drew their swords, the incident was so sudden that her Majesty appeared much startled, and a close Observer might have seen the colour for a moment leave her t:heek. The Royal party entered the Hippodrome by the grand entrance, and rode round the race-course. We under f"and it to be the intention of Mr. White, the proprietor, to tPPIy for permission to have the gate through which Proof were required to show the necessity of keeping out the : t 4 ehle from this delightful spot, there was ample evidence yes rdtlY for as soon as it became known that her Majesty and :; 411 Y were on the ground, they were considerably annoyed by h e cro wd of a low description, while others better regulated, at a respectful distance. MUSEUM.—According to the Parlia tnentar fro_ Jv pape r N o . 230, the income of the British .. a, ~ wh !LI Christ mas 1836 to Christmas 1837, was 29,292/ n titl e of 41 ,0431. re su lt e d f rom t h e Parliamentary grant. T h e ece the Synopsis and other publications, casts of marbles, Iri 5991 The expenditure in th e same p er i o d w as The Umber of visitors in the last year-321,151 we , We re gret to see, less than in the year before-383,147. f m} h ope that th e great number then was not the result of ! , on or novelty, arid that the people will continue to testify ben_lnteret and pleasure in visiting the Institution. The num -14 of readers seems steadily to increase—in 1819, 1,950 ;in 4.. °, 8 820 ; in 1830, 31,200; and in 1837, 69,936. The sie:urr,i_iphteurre,ffo%risits of artists and students to the galleries of purposes of study, was 4,938 in 1831 ; 7,052 in ° i . ; and .5,570 in 1837. at E,; ; 1. J ° lll l Leslie, Professor of Natural Philosophy bov: —nuur gh. was often known to pass an afternoon with mere hea...” cgo onversing with them just as if they had been his equals and attainments. 13, th u : A;Vlleatley has announced tor Bishop e. of t o , fro ;Pao veils that " the Queen will be graciously pleased Priem , t h o same patronage and support to the Labourers' 1%• ipciety as that valuable Society received from his late Jesty ,, The 4teki still k j i l e,„ _ a very ; e=pltlCuopngruous practice of having an " assize in the county of Devon ; the one held last " Exeter was very thinly attended. The second of the ancient concerts took place last night at hanorer-square. If we may judge from the appearance of the auditory, by whom the room was not more than two-thirds filled, the higher classes do not patronize this rather antiquated affair to the extent they did in former days. The fact is, that the comprehensive variety of concerts of a more modern cha racter, with their light and elegant class of compositions, have :superseded in public estimation the cumbrous majesty of the ancient school. The Directors have already made great inno vations upon the orriginal plan of this undertaking, but they Lave not yet arrived at that pitch of audacity, which will one of those days induce them to " reform it altogether." There was a great deal of what was very good in the selection of last night, and much if it was executed in a most effective and Masterly manner, but as a whole it was heavy in the extreme. The concert was under the direction of the Archbishop of York, and amongst the company we observed his Grace the Duke of Wel_ lington. Ilis Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge was also Present, and excited some attention by the loudness of his re marks, and his repeated " bravos," in many instances more re markable for their vehemence than from being particularly Judicious, The principal singers were Mrs. 11. R. Bishop, Airs. Knyvett, Mrs. Alf re d Shaw, Messrs. Phillips, S egu i n , B ennett, Vaughan, &c. In the first Part Mr. Phillips gave Ile w as b rought as a lamb to the slaughter" in his very best style; and we observed that an omission of eight bars before the pause took off much of the heaviness we have had reason to complain of in this very fine song. Marcello's " Qual Anchante" was very cliarmingly sung by Mrs. Bishop and Mrs. Shaw. In Hadyn's fine Recitative from The Seasons, " Lo ! now aslant the glittering earth," sung by Mrs. Bishop, there was some misunderstanding amongst the gentlemen of the orchestra. They did not seem to be agreed as to the fitting together of their respective parts, and in his vain at tempt to introduce order and regularity into their movements, their conductor added to the general con fusion by beating time most furiously. The splendour of Mrs. Alfred Shav‘'s voice told out well in Cherubini's " 0 salutaris hostia," but we can never forget having heard the unrivalled Malibran in the, same air; the depth of feeling which she infused into the composition can never be effaced from memory. Mrs. Shaw, with all her ability and cultivated classical taste, was comparatively tame. The first part (or Set, as these " ancients" call it) concluded with Haydn's su- Perb ch orus " The Heavens are telling." The second part ° P'slied Mozart's well known symphony in E flat, played with- It t epetition of the parts, a liberty no one has a right to take n it' ;.;this author. Mrs. Bishop never acquitted herself better than choru s "uglielmi's aria " Vengo a voi." The magnificent double "He gave them hailstones," from Israel in Egypt Ras enco re d as i t well deserved to be. Mrs. Kny vett , sang l l 'erY fin e l y i n " Angels ever bright ;" but several shakes she intr oduced were very inefficiently executed. We would re coMmend this lady to recommence a course of practice, or °mit all attempts at this ornament. Mozart's quartett from Idomeneo was sung much too slow. Mr. Seguin, in the reci tative from The Creation, " And God said, let the earth," sang very beautifully, and his voice told out well. The con cert was not over till near twelve o'clock, and must have been something more than a bonne bouche to most of the musical epicures present. We missed the veteran Cramer from his post of leader of the Orchestra, and on enquiry, regretted to learn that his absence was occasioned by severe indisposition. I and as the expense of conveyance is reduced th e public has a Tight to expect a reductive In the postage. But it is already ! proved that the expense of conveyance is a very small stun on each letter; ag the thief,,e*petise distributing thy. lettCrs: Put the sakiie establishment, with a very few ad ditional letter sorters and carriers, could distribute ten times as meny as at present; so that we have not to wait even fur Railway Companies' carrying the mails free, before we require that postage should be reduced. We want, however, not only loWer pOstage, but ttiore mails. Whv should not letters be sent to Ilti mingham, Manchester, and Liverpool by every railway train that leaves London, or four times a-day ? Why should not these cities, n ow wit!.in a few hours of each other, have all the advantages of a twopenny post like that of the metropolis ? The Government will not, we are sure, be allowed tosleep on this subject ; and unless it means to be run over and run do.vt by the advancing people, it must, as the Yankees say, ‘, a-head "—it must take the lead. We summon other com munities to imitate the example of the Manchester Cham ber of Commerce, and convince the Government that there is a necessity to place itself in the van. NG ORDERS COMMITTEE. PARLIAMENTARY DI VISIONS. MUTINY BILL. (From the rotes and Proeeedinps of the House of Commons. MONDAY, MARCH 26. Order for Committee read ; Motion made, and Question pro_ posed,—" That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair :"—Ameo i l ment proposed, to leave out from the word " That" to the end ol the Question, in order to add the words " a Select Committee be appointed, to inquire into the state of Military Punishments and Rewards now in force throughout the British Army," instead thereof :"—(Captain Boldero:)—Question put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question :"—The House divided:— _ _ ---- --- - MAJORITY-AYES, 139. Acland, T. D.—West Somerset Ingham, R. -South Shields Adam, Rear-Adm. Sir C.—Clack- Inglis, Sir R. IL—Oxford University mannan • James, William—Cumberland Arbuthnot, Gen.—Kincardineshire Jones, Wilson—Denbigh Balley, Joseph—Worcester Kinnaird, Hon. A. F.—Perth Bailey, J. I).—Sudbury Kirk, Peter—Carrickfergus Baker, Edward—Wilton Lainbton, H.—North Durham Baring, F. Thornhill—PortsmontS I.:l'evre, C. Shaw—North Rants Baring, W. B.—North Staffordshire Lockhart, A. M.—Lanarkshire Barneby, Joh I—Worcestershire Logan, Hart—West Stiftbik (Sentinel:, Lord G.—Lynn Lygon, Hon. Colonel H. B,—West Berkeley, Hon. C.—Cheltenham Worcestershire Biackburne, I. J.—Warrington Mackenzie, W. F.—Peeblesshire B'ackstone, W. S.—Wallingford Mahon, Viscount— Hertford Blair, J. Wigtoeshire Master, Colonel—Cirencester Blakemore, Richard—Wells Marale, Hon. Fox—Elgin Burglis Bolling, W.—Bolton Maunsell, T. P.—Northampt , •nsliire Bradshaw, James—Canterbury Miles, Philip John—Bristol Broad ley, Henry—East Yorkshire Mordaunt, Sir John—Warwickshire Broadwood, Henry—Bridgewater Nichol', J —Cardiff Biownrigg, J. S. —Boston O'Callaghan, Hon. C.—Dungarvan Bruges, N. H. L.—Bath ()Terra'', Richard M.—Kildare Burr, D. H. o.—Hereford O'Neill, lion. J. B. R.—Antrim Busfield, W.—Bradford Pocke, Chas. Wm.—Leicestershire Clii:ders, John W.—Malton Pakington, J. S.—Droitwich Chisholm, A. W.—lnverness-shire Palmer, George--Essex Chute, W. L. W.—West Norfolk Palmerston, Viscount—Tiverton Clive, It. H. South Shropshire Parker, John—Sheffield Codrington, C. W.—Gloucestershire Parker, Montagu—Devon Cole, Viscount—Fermanagh Parke-, It. T.—Preston Compton, H. Combs—Hampshire Parker, T. A. W.—Oxfordshire Dahneny, Lord—Stirling Parnell, Sir /L—Dundee Dalrymple, Sl' A.—Brighton Patten, J. Wilson—Lancashire Polhill, Frederick—Bedford Powell, Colonel -Cardiganshire Power, James—Wexford Co. Marquis — Norwich Richards, Richard—Merionethshire D D " a i a s t r : e b i te):;,, Edward—ExeterGeorge—East Sussex Colonel—Worcester. Praed, W. 111 —Aylesbury I) (~ w Douglas,dDouro,es ~,, % I l i i ir r , q Rice, Right Hon. T. S.—Cambridge Duke, Sir James—Boston Bickford, W.—Aylesbury Dunbar, George—Belfast Roche, David—Limerick Duncombe, Hon. A.—East Retford Rose, Sir George—Christchurch Dorados, t:. W. D.—Flint Round, C. G.—Essex Dundas, J. Deans—Devizes itushbrooke, Colonel—West Suffolk Dundas, Hon. T.—Richmond Rushout, George Bowles—Evesham Egerton, W. Tatton—Cheshire Russell, Lord John—Stroud Egerton, Sir I'.—Cheshire Sanderson, Richard—Colchester Evans, William—North Derby Scarlett, Hon. J Y.—Guildford Fazakerley, J. N.—Peterborough Sharp; General—Dumfries Fitzroy, Lord C.—Bury St. Elm. Shaw, Rt. lion. F.—Dublin Univer. Fitzsimon, Nicholas—King's Co. Sheppard, Thomas—Frome F,,llett, Sir W.—Exeter Shirley, E. J —Warwickshire Forbes, William —Stirlingshire Sibthorp, Colonel—Lincoln Forester, Hon. G.—Wenlock Smith, it. Vernon—Northampton Fremantle, Sir Thomas —Bucks Spencer, Hon. F.—Midhurst Gibson, Thomas—lpswich Stanley, E. John—North Cheshire Glvnne, Sir S. It.—Flintshire 'tauten Lord—North Lancashire Gordon, Robert—Windsor Stansfield, W R. C.—Hudderstield Goulburn, Right Hon. H.—Cam- Stewart, James—Honiton bridge University Surrey, Earl of—West Sussex Grey, Sir George—Devonport Teignmouth, Lord— Marylebone. Grey, Sir Charles Fdward 'ferment, J. E.—Belfast Halford, Henry—Leicestershire Tollemache Hon. F.—Grantham Hardinge, Right Hon.SirlL—Laun- Townley, Rd. G. —Cambridgeshire ceston Trench, Sir F.—Scarborough Harland, W. C.—Durham Heathcote, Sir W.—S. Hampshire Henniker, Lord—East Suffolk Herbert, Hon. S.—South Wilts Hinde, John Hodgion—Newcastle tiK,ll- Ty tie Hmbhouse, Right Hon. Sir J. Cam Nottingham Hodgson, Frederick—Barnstaple Hodgson, Rd.—Berwick-on-Tweed Holines, W.—Berwick-onTweed Hope, G. W.—Weymouth Hope, James —Linlithgowsiiire Hotham, Lord—Leominster Houston, G. J.—Renfrew. hire Howard. I'. ll.—Carlisle Howard; 11--Wicklow Co. I lowick, Vi,c.—North umberla nd - Hughes, W. B.—Carnarvon Hurt, Francis—South Derby Troubridge, Sir T. E.—Sandwich Vere, Sir C. 13.—East Suffolk I Vivian, John Ennis—Truro Vivian, Sir R. H.—East Cornwall w e lby. Glynne Earle—Grantham Westenra ' Han. H R.—Monaghan White, Lieut -Col. Saml.—Leitrim Williams, Robert—Dorchester I Williams, W. A.—Monmouthshire Winnington, T. E.— Ressdley Vs innington, H. J.—Worcestershire 'Wood, Charles-Halifax Wood, Thomas—Middlesex Woulfe, Mr. Setleant—Cashel Wyndham. NV:wham—Salisbury Wynn, Right Hon. C. W.—Mont gomeryshire TEr.rmis. Seymour, Lord—Totness ,Steuart, Robyn —lladdin! ,gton MINORITY. Ainsworth, P.—Bolton Archbald, Robert—Kildare Barnard, E. G.—Greenwich Beamish, F. B.—Cork Berkeley, Hon. F. H.—Bristol Bewes, 'l' —Plymouth Bodkin, .1. J.—Galway Co. Bridgernan, Hewitt—Ennis Briscoe, .1. I.— Westbury Brotherton, J.—Salford Browne, it. D.—Mayo Bryan, Maj. Geo.—Kilkenny Co. Bulwer, E. L.—Lincoln Burdett, Sir F.—North Wiltshire Butler, Hon. P.—Kilkenny Co Chalmers, Patrick—lnverbervie Chester, Henry—Louth co. Collier, John—Plymouth • Collins, \V.—Warwick Curry, William—Armagh Dashwood, G. H.—Wycombe Denistoun, J.—Glasgow IVEyncourt, Right lion. C. T.— Lambeth Easth.pe, J.—Leicester Evans, Sir G.DeLacy—Westminster Evans, G.—Dublin County PieVen, John —Oldham Finch, F.—Walsall Gillon, Wm . D.—Linlithgo w Grattan, Henry—Meath Greenaway, Charles—Leominster ( ;rote ' George—London Hall, Benjamin—Mar) lebone liaise, J.—SL Ives Hastie, Archibald—Paisley Hawes, Benjamin—Lambeth Harter, W. G.—Wells Hollond, Robert—Hastings Hoskins, K.—Herefordshire —NOES, 76. Hume, Jo,eidi—Kilkenny Humphery, John—Southwark Johnson, W. Augustus—Oldham Langdale, Hon C.—K naresborough Lushington, Charles—Ashburton Mackenzie, Thomas—Ress-shire M`Namara, Maj. W. N.—Clare Co. Marshall, Wm.—Carlisle Marsland, Henry—Stockport Martin, John—Tewkesbury Morris, D.—Carmarthen ','Brien, Cornelius—Clare O'Brien, W. S.—Limerick Co. O'Connell, Daniel—Dublin O'Connell, John—Athlone Pease, Joseph—South Durham i'llimptre, John F.—East Kent Poulter, J. S.—Shaftesbury Rice, Edward Royd—Dover Rundle, John—Tavistock Salwey, Lieut.-Col.—Ludlow Somerville, Sir M. W.—Drogheda St 3 le, Sir Charles—Scarborough Tancred, H. \V.—Banbury Thompson, Ald.—Sunder land Moroley, Thos.—Wolverhampt on Vigors, N. A.—Carlow co. Wakley, Thomas- Finsbury Walker, R.—Bury, Lancashire Wallace, Robert—Greenock Warburton, H.—Bi idport Ward, H. G.—Sheffield White, Andrew—Sunderl.nd Williams, William—Coventry Wilshere, William—Yarmouth Wood, Sir Matthew—Londo n Wyse, Thomas—Waterfora TELLERS. Boldero, !ferny G.—CWypenha►n Sinclair, Sir G.—Caithness shire SPAIN. WEDNESDAY, ➢IARCIH 28. Order read for resuming adjourned Debate upon Question (27th March),—" That an humble Address be presented to her Majesty, expressing to her Majesty the opinion of this House, that no ad vantage, either to the interests of this Country or to those of Spain, has resulted from the employment of her Majesty's subjects in the service of her Catholic Majesty, in consequence of the suspension, by Order in Council, of the provisions of the Foreign Enlistment Act ; and, since the continuance of such Order in Council is not required by the obligations of existing Treaties, humbly praying that her Majesty will be graciously pleased not to renew it r"— (Lord Eliot:)--Question put : --The House Crvide:l: MI Arl;rnd, Sir Thomas Arland, 'l'. D. Arbuthnot, Hon. H. Itaihey, Joseph, jun. Millie, Colonel H. llaker, E. -by, John ORITY-AYES, 62. Estcourt, T. G. R. Mackinnon, W. A. Fs , c ourt, 'l' S. B. , Aabon, Lord Minter, S:r E M.ster, Colonel Gaxkell, J. M. maunsell, 'l' P Gibson, T. Milner, Richard G rine, Sir S. R. Nichol!, J. Goddard, Ambrose Pakington, arneby, . Blair, J. 13 , amston, T. W. Braariwood, H. Lrowinigg, .1 S. Bruges, W. H. L. Yitriictt, Sir F. Cartwright, W. L. Clive, Viscount Gordon, Hon. W. Goulburn H. Grimsditcli. 'l'. liaise, James Harcourt, G. G. Hodgson, F. Hodgson, R. Honnes, W. A'Court Palmer, G. Parker, M. E. N. Round, C. G. Itosfibr , ake, Colonel Si. w, F. Smith, Abel Sugden, Sir Edward Were, Sir C. B. /le, Lord Colquhoun, J. C. Darby, George Douglas, Sir C. E Duneoinbe, A. Egerton, Sir P. Egerton, Lord F. I ngl.s, Sir 11. H. Irton, S. Lefroy, nr. T. Litton, Edward Lucas, E. Lygon, Hon. Gen. Mackenzie, Thomas Vernar, W. Whitmore, T. C. Wyndham, N. THLLEIIII. Fremantle, Sir T. Lance le., W. S. Ainswn,th, Peter BaN, N. .JORITY-NOES, Evans, "%Nllliam Fcrgusom, Sir Ronald Ferguson, Sir Rebert Ferguson, Robert Grattan, Henry Grey, Sir 0. Hawes, R. Ha) ter, W. G. Ilindley, C. Hodges, T. L. Horsman E. Hoskins, K. Kinnaird. Hon. A. F. Lemon, Sir C. Lushington, C. N/ arsland, 11. Mauie, lion Fox Morris, David Murray, J A. Muskett, George A. O'Brien, Cornelius O'Callaghan, D. Palmer, C. F. Parker, J. Parrott, J. Pendarves, E. W. Philips, G. R. Ponsonby, Hon. J. P.Acer, James Price, Sir R. Pryse, P. Roche, W. Russel!, Lott! John Salwey, Colonel Sanford, E. A. Scrope, G. P. Standish. Charles Style, Sir T. C. "Jrncreti, H. W. Thornley, Thowas Turner, W. Wallace, White, Andrew Wood, C. Wrightson, W. B. Bannerman. A. Banard, E. G. Blackett, C. Blake, W. J. Brocklehurst Brodie, W. 15. Brotherton, J. Busfield, W. Butler, Hon. P. Chalmers Patrick Craig, G ( uni , t W. Davms, Colonel Dennistoun, J. Duff; James Duke, Sir James Duncan, Lord Dundas, J. D. e, Captain Ellice, E. Euston, Earl of Evans, Sir G. DelLacy' TELLERS. SUnley, E. J. Steuart, R. . • QUEEN ELIZABETH AND HER TIMES.-TMS Is one of the most interesting historical works which have is sued from the press for some time. It is devoted to the illus tration of a period in our history to which every Englishman turns with well-grounded pride, and which will hear to be in vestigated with the searching eye of truth. The ability and good judgment displayed by the editor in every page of these volumes determined him to interweave with the historical letters many of a lighter character, illustrating the literature and conditions of society, and thereby, indirectly, the history of the times ; and this a g a i n i n a more popular and amusing form than that in which it has has hitherto been the practice to submit such materials to the public eye. The publication is admirably timed, and with very great propriety dedicated to our present Queen.—Literary Gazette. LADY STEPNEY'S " COURTIER'S DAUGHTER.". —" This romance of the nineteenth century," observes the Morning Post, " combines the thrilling interest peculiar to the Radcliffe school of fiction with the vivacious attractions of a fashionable novel. Almost every passion which can agitate the human heart is pourtrayed in the most vivid colours; and the fertility of invention, boldness of design, arid facility of execution, displayed by the elegant authoress of these volumes given us a still higher opinion of her talents than we had pre viously entertained. "This county enjoys the bad eminence of exceeding in crime the ether shires by which it is surrounded. Lanark shire and Dumbartonshire have only about one half the propor donate number of crimi na l s t h at are found in Renf rewshire, while Stirlingthire has only one-third, and Ayrshire less than one-seventh.— Greenock Advertiser. THE SUN, LONDON I TIIMISDAY, MARCH 2 1838. STAND ReFolutio! s reported— 1. " That, in the; ease of the Lough Foyle Drainage PLti tion, the Standing Orders ought not to be dispens?d with " 2. " That, in tht2 ease LI the Linton Inclosure Petition fo: additional provision, the parties be poriiiiited to introduce such additional provision in their Bill, on inserting the Notices for three successive weeks in the London Gazette, and in some one and the Fame newspaper published in the county of Cam hri•lge, and in affixing the Notices on the church-doors of the parishes of Linton and Hadtltock for three successive Sundays." 3. " That, in the case of the Belfast Waterworks (No. 1) Petition, the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill on depositing forthwith in the Private Bill Office, longitudi sal and transverse sections of the intended Reservoir, accord. ing to the provisions of the Standing Order, No. 3, p. 16." 4. " That, in the ease of the Southampton Docks Petition. the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill, on making application forthwith to the Owners, Lessees, and Occupiers, and depositing the Lists in the Private Bill Office ; and that the Committees on this and the two preceding Bills do exa mine in the first place how far such Orders have been com plied with, and do report the same to the House on the Report of the Bill." The three last Resolutions agreed to. table. Report to lie on the IRELAND. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) DUBLIN, MARCH 27.—1 have just learned that at the Mo naghan Assizes, a barrister moved for the postponement of his client's trial upon the grounds that the High Sheriff had no right to empanel a jury, having been appointed by the Lord Lieutenant after another Sheriff had been sworn into office, whose nomination he contended could not be recalled. Judge Burton would not decide without referring to Baron Joy, who sat in the other Court. After some time they pronounced judgment of respOndent onster. Thus the conspiracy against the Government fell to the ground. The point was raised by Mr Joy, the Chief Baron's nephew. The - Post, and the Mail also, of yesterday evening, con tained a paragraph stating that the Queen was about to visit this country, which has created a sensation. Maurice O'Connell, Esq., M.P., sailed yesterday for Holyhead, on his way to London, to take his seat for Tralee. The second successor of the renowned Dr. Doyle, and the immediate successor of the amiable Dr. Nolan, was on Sun day elected at Carlow. Dr. Healy is the same of this new Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin. There have been several meetings in town during the pre sent week, for the purpose of collecting funds to support Mr. O'Connell in the enormous expense he is undergoing in de fending his seat for Dublin. There is also a collection for a no: less national purpose in the course of collection—namely, to erect a monument over the ashes of John Philpot Curran, Ireland's best beloved Patriot. Yesterday, at the Kingstown Races, a temporary stand_ house, or rather platform, upon which the Lord Lieutenant had been a few minutes before, gave way, and precipitated a great number of persons who were upon it at the time to the ground. No lives were lost, though several persons, among whom were some ladies, received contusions. Some of the Italian Opera Company, at present in Dublin, were slightly hurt, particularly Signor Catone. BRUSSELS AND GERMAN PAPERS BRUSSELS, MARCH 26.—We learn that the Queen of the French will come to Brussels at the beginning of May, with the Duke and Duchess of Wurtemburg, and several other members of the Royal Family of France. The Cabinet Mes senger Delmoitie, was sent to London yesterday with des patches for our Ambassador before his departure. The Mi nister for Foreign Affairs was engaged for above an hour with the King, and we have every reason to believe that M. Del moitee is the bearer of instructions from our Government to M. Van de Weyer concerning the acceptance of the 24 Ar ticles by King William. The Messager de Gand has received from the Hague the following private letter : " Do not believe the reports spread by the journals ; some are too prejudiced and devoid of good faith ; the others are in haste to speak and are ignorant of the real state of things. The Government of the Netherlands has not adopted, and never will adopt, the treaty of 1831. But it has declared its complete good-will to negotiate on the basis of the 24 articles; Luxemburg to be in any case excluded from any proposal, being a province depending on the territory of the German Con federation : The negotiations will be resumed—of this we arc assured ; but if this do not lead to the re-establishment of the kingdom, with a separate administration, you may be certain that we shall remain in state quo. It would not be impossible that Belgium would be forced by the Allied Powers to pay the arrears of the debt ; and this is perhaps the foundation of all the noise that the journals make. Dl!trust, above all, the news published by the Mindelsblad, which is only the organ of the egotism of the jobbers, and which derives most of its inspirations from Belgium. The Journal de la Hoye will tell you all the truth, but like that you must, and it has not yet spoken."—Journal du am lit erre d'Anvers. Ikussus, March 2S.—Yesterday at the opening of the Chamber of Representatives, the Minister of Finance real a Royal resolution authorising the withholding of the project of law relative to the duties on salt. Several Members expressed a wish that a new project of law on the same subject may be presented to the Chambers as soon as possible. The latest number of the Austrian Observer brings but too melancholy a confirmation of our direct accounts from Pesti'. We extract the following particulars in one of the accounts from Ofen, dated 14th March. It is stated :—" On the 23d, at one o'clock in the morning, the water attained the extraordinary height of 27 feet 1 inch, exceeding by 3 feet the height of the inundation of 1775, the greatest previously known. On such an unexpected event, Pesth, of course, could not be safe, and the water penetrated over all the banks and dikes into the city. The distress which this event causes among the poorer class is not to be described." Th e l ast account from Ofcn, of the 15th, 9, p.m., say s ," Th e water in the Danube remained between twenty-six and twenty-seven feet elevation; to-day, about two in the afternoon, the upper ice began to move, while the lower remained fast, end the water has since risen to twenty-nine feet, where it now stands. The distress, especially of the inhabitants of Pesth, is already much greater than could have been conjectured at the begin idn,; not only small, slightly built houses, of which many are destroyed in both cities, but many large houses in Pesth have dangerous breaches in the walls, and some of them have fallen down this morning. At all events, the greater part of the city of peso , i s devastated, and it will take many years before it can recover from this great misfortune. In such an unexpected vi,itation, it was to be expected that many lives would be lost. The number of victims at Pesth, at present known, is stated at ISO. His Imperial Highness the Archduke Stephen, regardless of danger, immediately hast ene d over the rapid stream, to b y his presence the di s t resse d i nhabitants of the encourage neighbouring city, and to animate the measures for their relief. Hi s Majesty, our most gracious Empero r , on t h e f i rst news o f t hi s disaster, sent a sum of 20,000 florins from his privy purse, for the imme diate relief of the sufferers. It cannot be doubted that the well known and so often proved benevolence of the inhabitants of this empire, will zealously hasten to mitigate such sufferings, as they did eight sears ago, w hen the capital and the envi rons were visited with an affliction similar to that which h as now befallen One of the most flourishing manufacturing towns of Hungary." 13E t. GI AN I'ANDS—BRUSSELt3, MARCH 117. Actual Dolt, 244 per Cent can nt..t.: .................................... 1 5 0 .11, 14 R o thschild's Loan, 5 per Loan of Thirty Millions ........................ 94U Loan o f city, 1832, 4 per Cent. ...... 9:33.2 Society of Commerce, 45. i pr cent ............. 163 B a nk of Belgium, a per Cent._ .................. 117 Natioll3lsociety. .......... 130.52 —Brussels Papers, March 27. AUSTRIAN FUN D.S.—VIENNA, :‘lAriC4 17. Five per Cents. Matalliques ........ .................. 10714 Four per Cents. 100.; , 4 Three par Cents. Bank Shares --AligemeineZeitit ng, Mares ,?1. SUICIDE in a UNION WORKHOUSE. A n inquest svr.s held at the New *Union Workhouse, in St. Thoniat on Tuesday evening, before J. Dribble, Esq. one of the Coroners of the County, on the body of Thonias Pyle, who termina:ed his existence by hanging himself to a beam, in the work-room of that establishment, on Sunday morning. It appeared that the deceased was 75 years of age, and an inhabitant of Lympstone. He got up on Sunday morning at the usual hour, and went into the work-room and committed the fatal act ; the body was discovered about three quarters of an hour after, it was warm. A surgeon was immediately sent for, but the vital spark had fled. The deceased had been ad mitted into the Old Workhouse about twelve months since, and was tranferred to the New on its completion. He had nu friends, but one of the Guardians, Captain Williams, of Lympstone, who used to give him a trifle of money occasion ally, and lOoked to his little comforts. The Hon. Magistrate on hearing of the tidings of .his death proCeeded to the Work house, and was much affected on learning the particulars of the case. 'The deceased has been a man of property, but had lived fast. He had distant relatives, it was stated at the inquest, but no friends. James Knight —I have been 'an inmate of this house ever since we came over in the Union. I recollect the deceased ever since be came into it. I sleep in the same room that he did, but at th e hi gher end. I saw him go out on the Sunday morning about six —he was fully dressed when he went out of the room. I saw him go to the water.eloset before. I heard him say during the night " the Lord have mercy upon me." I never in my life heard him make use of those words before. I never saw anything the matter with his reason to the best of my judgment. He never wanted anything that I knew of, nor did I ever hear him complain at all. lie asked me the Saturday before to sew this button on. James Hodge —Deceased was 75 years old—he was ad mitted on the sth of April, 1837—he has been under my care the whole of that time—lie was always a very quiet man, and had nothing the matter with him but infirmity. I would frequently as k him how he was, and he would say," Very well , but terribly crippled up." He never complained of want—in fact we tried to get a larger allowance of potatoes for the man, and he was the man the Committee asked about it, if they required more potatoes, and he said, " No, they had plenty." The Foreman, after consulting with his fellows, said, that judging the evidence, it would be mast natural to conclude that the poor man was labouring under temporary derange ment, and this was then returned as the verdict.— Western Times. i and C 0 Mild EKCIAL MARKET. I(From the Morning Papers of this day, Wetinestlay) Moatcxxo Cliti.ONte.t.r.-hares generally were dull, and several underwent a forthejtlep'tt , tision, ;;:i► the transactions in 'hem were unimportant. Birmingham, o';(1,. left off at 84 to ;6 premium; ditto new, 26 to 27 prcm. ; Southaii';Ft , _ , o; ,31 to -W I per share; ditto new, 20 to 21 prem. ; Great W,stern 231 to 24 prem. j Brighton, 11 to 1 prem. Dutch securities are daily gettirig w.-orse snd small sales are c rithlually made, which is the worst feaVife a market can -event, for it clearly shows that the bone fide holder's Ore re- Iteving themselves of their stock. The city corespondent of the Morning Post perseveres in ills declaration that no letter of the nature we have described has been received by the Bank of England from the Bank of .he United Sta'es. What wretched sources of informatiln mr Contemporary must possess, for the details of this busi ness are by this time known to almost every merchant's clerk tit the city. The intelligence from Belgium is now the subject of pars nount importance to the holders of Dutch and Belgian bonds, !Or the opinion is hourly gaining ground in the city that there will be very great difficulties in the settlement of the question of the partition of the Dutch national debt. It is very ge nerally believed that King Leopold is quite determined upon the rejection of all share of the debts of Holland, and thinks it sufficient to have burdened his subjects with two heavy • loans for the extraordinary military expenses which Belgium has been subjected to, entirely through the obstinacy of the King of the Dutch. It seems also that Leopold is much • more confident of his ability to repel the aggressions of the Dutch, or even to invade and conquer Holland, than in 1831, when his army was undisciplined, and not, as now, officered ex tensively with Frenchmen, and certain of the full moral, if not active and pecuniary, assistance of the King of the French On the other hand, the difficulties of Holland are now over whelming, for so exhausted is the country, and the mass of the people are becoming so disaffected to the present order of things, that King William will find it difficult to meet the ex penses of an offensive war. In this event it is almost needless to remark that the Dutch will in all probability be obliged once more to come to terms with their creditors. The fo reign bondholders are therefore tolerably sure of being sa crificed, let the Dutch and Belgium question be settled when it will. MORNING POST. —The Spanish Active Bonds, without the arrears of dividend, advanced to 22, owing to some further improvement in price reported from Paris • they, however, receded before the close of the market to 21 s We do not believe that any change has taken place in the prospects of Queen Isabella to warrant an advance in the Paris market. A new loan has been talked of, but how this, even if obtained, is to benefit the holders of the existing stock we are always at •a loss to conceive. If two or three millions sterling can be raised it will be applied, we have no doubt, rather to the ordi nary purposes of the Madrid Government than to the pay ment of dividends in Paris and London, and so much will be at the same time added to the national burthens. A new loan would therefore be not only of no advantage lot decidedly de trimental to the foreign creditor. The refusal of the Emperor of Russia to make Don Carlos any further advances of money for the prosecution of the war is one of the rumours in circula tion, but it does not appear to be entitled to the least credit. There is nothing in the present situation of Don Carlos to diminish the confidence of his friends and supporters, whoever they may be, in the result of the war ; but could it be even proved that they have abandoned him to his own re sources, as has been alleged, and that his expulsion from Spain must be the inevitable consequence, we do not see what dif ference this would make to the Foreign claimants on that country. Another half-year's dividend will become due on the Ist of May next, and the addition of a fresh Coupon to the arrears with which the bonds are already charged, will be pretty sure to be the signal for a further decline in the capital. If a little more money can be extracted from the pockets o f the English and the French it will be done, but nothing will, we are satisfied, be returned to them in any shape. We are nevertheless disposed to believe that some scheme or other is in contemplation among the loan contractors of the two countries for getting a fresh creation of bonds into the dif ferent markets, and the question is, whether this will be per mitted. The Committee of the London Stock Exchange must set their faces against the proceeding, and in this way endeavour to make some amends for the mischief they in. flicted on the public by their erroneous conduct in 1834. Had they acted with a little firmness on that occasion, they would have saved upwards of 70 of their members from the ruin in which they were involved by the heavy decline that occurred .the year following. Of this fact they are as well aware as ourselves. Five per Cent. Portuguese Stock left off at 30! to -8, and the Three per Cents. at 20i to 1. It was reported late in the day that an express had reached town with later advices from Lisbon, which is probably correct, as the Iberia has now been due these three days. A conflict is said to have taken place between the Government party and the Exaltados, in which the latter were defeated. The Dutch funds have been done at lower prices, in consequence of an article that appeared this morning in the I'ost. This article has for the moment greatly dissipated the hope which had bran entertained by many persons of the speedy settlement of the differences of the Dutch and Belgian Governments. The revival of the question of the conversion of the Five pc: Cent. Stock at Paris caused some sales to be made of French securities in this market to-day. The Five per Cent. Rentes were done at 108 f. 25c., and the Three per Cents. at 79f. 75c. MORNING I-lEnat.n.—The Money Market, either as regards commercial dealings o: speculation and investments in the public securities of this country, scarcely call for any par ticular remark, so little have been the changes from the particular features of the Market to which we adverted yes terday. An impression has ben creafrd, by the statements of a Morning Contemporary, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been borrowing money (to make up the deficiencies of the present quarter) of the Bank of England, upon the secu rity of the Deficiency Bills of the July quarter. As the law has not provided for any such forestalment of the appro priation of Deficiency Bills, we may state that any such ad. vances are not consistent with the terms of the Bank Charter Act, and have existed more in imagination than fact. Amongst some of our experienced men in the foreign loan way, there is an impression that the efforts which have been made on the Paris Bourse, as well as here, to bolster up Spanish Bonds, is but a prelude to an attempt for negociating a new loan for the service of the Queen of Spain. It is, how ever, considered that under the present financial circumstances of Spain, no new loan can be contracted but at a ruinous hazard on the part of the speculators, however abject, as re gards the Government of Spain, the terms may be in favour of the contractors. zi'PIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. It is difficult to conceive how mankind could deal with the Tories were it not for that admirable dispensation of Provi dence whereby your very cunning men so frequently overreach themselves. As malignity and amhition are ever prompting them with continual projects for their darling object of obtain ing power; as their unscrupulous pertinacity constantly sup plies them with a fresh succession of means which a less iroguish opposition would disdain, it is pleasing to observe the regularity with which their devices entail not only dishonour, but, what they feel more bitterly, disappointment on themselves. Of this great and wholesome truth a memorable instance has been afforded by the result of Lord Eliot's motion. Fired with a natural emulation of his Cornish countryman Moles worth, the Noble Lord announced with great parade h's inten tion of having his turn with another Secretary of State. To censure a policy which it was well known could not, under pre sent circumst.inces, be pursued—to recal the foreign Legion when it was no longer in the field—and to provide against the renewal of an order of Council, which no one intended to re new, were objects so urgent in the eyes of the Noble Lord, that he thought his duty to the Tories of England required him to stop the business of the country in order to take the sense of the House of Commons on a resolution carefully worded, and ushered in with abeemningly long notice. Whips were made on both sides—the rites of pairing were duly per formed—and nations, with suspended breath, longed for the end of many prepared speeches, and the numbers of the division. The first night of the debate exhibited all the usual phenomena of such debates, together with one which may be reckoned cut of the usual course—the brilliant speech of Mr. Shell. And as this speech seemed to merit at least some slight appearance of answer, and as it was known that answers—(and such - answers 1).--had been prepared by Sir Charles Douglas, and Sir George Sinclair, and Mr. ma nes , of Pontefract, and Mr. Miekinnon, of some other place, it was generally „judged that the speaking would not be deficient in quantity ; and prudent men resolved, like Sir Robert Peel, not to come clown too early, so as to have too much of it. But it proved rather unfortunate that.all the feeders of the Tory part) happened on this occa sion to act on this very natural and excusable feelinc". Neither Sir Robert Peel nor Mr. Holmes being in the House, the great Conservative party was in the situation of sheep without a shepherd, or a vessel without a pilot ; nor was it in this dilemma able to put itself under those gentlemen whom it takes as special guides in matters of foreign policy ; for Mr. Maclean was absent, and -an entious destiny had removed Borthwick awhile from the field. The Tories of England, in this sad dilemma, were thrown under the guidance of Mr. Goulbiwn, Lord Granville Somerset, and Sir .Edward Sng. den ; and under such auspiCes the period of the debate arrived. What was the cause that, when the order of the day for the adjourned debate was read, the Tory bodies stuck to their scats and the Tory voices to the'Fory jaws it is not yet per mitted to us to know. Some say that Mr. Milnes would not throw away his speech in so thin a House, and Would not speak ; some that Mr. Meekinnon way shy, and could not speak. Some aver that the Douglas was too true a knight to take an unfair advantage of Lord Palmerston's absence ; and some that Sinclair was waiting co: his friends Peel and Bur dett. And some say that even at that early hour the eagle eye of the great ex-Equity Judge had counted (and counted wrong) the numbers on both sides, and discerned the moment when ho might take advantage of the blindness of Political Justice and obtain a furtive majority. But be the cause what it may, twice did the Speaker put the unheeded question ; the loud Ayes seemed to drown the Noes : the Ministry were ordered into the lobby usually devoted to the minority, and the Tories, as they went nut to that usually tenanted by the pre sumed majority, were kind enough to inquire what Lord John meant to do in consequence of his defeat? But the cold cal. eulatiobs of the tellers dispelled their pleasin g hopes ; a. ma jority of eight, equival ent to a b out forty i n a ull House, nega tived the motion ; and the hopes and speeches of the Tories were cut short !—Morning Chronicle. ' A topic which took place of Lord Eliot's resolution on Tuesday was one which has at all times pressed closely upon tlie'attcntiou and feelings of the whole community. It was that never-ending, still-beginning nuisance, the Irish policy of the Queen's Ministers. It was provoked, moreover, by Lot d John Russell, who seems to be now in a condition so inextrican ble; and plunged beyond his depth in a Popish vassalage so , terrible ; that " retreating were more tedious than go O'er." His Lordship s aa was manifest from the documents he brought with him, cane down to the House armed to the elbow with an elaborate imprortipti's reply to a question s;hich he knew before-hand that Sir Robert Peel would be compelled by the Noble Lord'e own proceeding to ask of him—namely, what were the intentions; of the O'Connell Cabinet with reference to that grand measure the Irish Tithe Adjustment Bill, upon the strength of which—upon the promise of bringing forward villith-ttpon the solemn pledge of carrying which through Par liament, tan:, same Lord .1. Russell and his accomplices rode roughshod into of three long years ago ? The answer to Sir R. Peel's inte rroga t o ry was , that on the 30th of April there would be submitted to the Liousn of Commons the Ministerial measure of 1838 for " settling" the Irish Tithe questions His Lordship stated, further, that the proposed Bill was to be so new, so comprehensive, so unlike all those which had pre ceded it, that it could not by possibility be founded on " any one" resolution such as had been at in former years. But it was to stand on no less than 13 resolutions, driven like so many piles into the muddy bottom of the Whig,- Romish policy, to support that bridge whereby Drs, M'Halc and Murray were to be heralded by O'Connell within the ramparts of our Protestant Constitution. But Lord .John Russell vaunted something more on behalf of this palla dium of Whig fame and honour. He announced that " his measure, if carried, would do that without which no measure could be comprehensive and final---namely, it would give security to the Church on the one hand, and give satisfaction to the people of Ireland owe the ether." How is all this ? We have heard that " fine wards butter no parsnips." Fine words have indeed buttered some people's bread. Mr. Daniel O'Connell's bread—Lord John Russell's bread has been buttered by them, and on both sides too. But this fresh attempt at buttering by fine words will hardly serve the purpose now intended. Who are those of the people of Ireland that require to have " satisfaction" given them by any meddling with the Established Cliurch Lord John Russell' did not mean the Protestants of Ireland— he could not. He admits that it is " security" which they (the Protestants) stand in need of, end that by the people a Ireland he means no other than the priests and agitating Pa pists. Now, these men have one all declared, a thousand times over, that what affords "security" to the Church will not afford them " satisfaction," but the reverae ; for that they will never rest, nor cease to agitate, until the Church, in all its temporalities, has been " completely overturned." We should like to have this in sore reasonable degree explained for country gentlemen by Lord John Russell cr his master. But there is other authority, and a more imposing one, if not more than respectable, than that of his Lordship_ viz. that majority of the House of Commons which, with the Noble Lord's full concurrence, and at his express instance, placed on record its decided judgment as to what would, and what only could, lead to " a final and satisfactory adjustment: of the tithe question,"—to wit, a provision " whereby any stir alus of the Church revenues not required for the spiritual care of its members should be applied to the general education of her Majesty's subjects, without distinction of religious persua sion." Well then, we have, first, the above resolution of the House of Commons of 1835, that nothing short of the appro priation (or spolia!ion) clause would give satisfaction to the people of Ireland—that is, to O'Connell and the Papists; 2d, we have the incessant and clamorous proclamations of the said O'Connell, that even the clause for the partial plunder ing of the Church was, in his eyes so far from satisfactory to the people, or conducive to the peace of Ire land, that he considered it no better than a pitiful instalment of 2s. 6d. in the pound out of a debt of 20s. ; 3d, we have, in the letters, pastoral, polemical, and pugnacious, of that mild and gentle shepherd, John Tuam, a pretty fair specimen or what he means by that " general education" which the House of Commons majority in 1835 pronounced to be es sential to the peace of Ireland—viz., that. no book should be admitted into any school paid for out of the confiscated rove slues of the Protestant Church, though professing to beset on foot for the joint education of Protestant children and Pa pists, save and except such book as he or one of his mitred brethren should formally authorize and sanction for that pur pose—that no teacher should dare to give instruction in anch a school, save only such teacher as he ( M'Hale) or some other mitred autocrat, should formally appoint, and. suclr as should be liable to dismissal at his pleasure !—that nu teacher brought up and qualified for his office at any " normal" school governed or superintended by a Protes tant should be suffered to act as schoolmaster to any of the AP Hale flock. Once more we call upon the majority of the House of Commons—is this then the cause of " religious liberty" for which ye are undermining the Protestant reformed Church ? Is it for a community of Papists, trampled on and ground down by the cloven-hoof of this bigoted barbarian, that ye dream of ever legislating in the spirit of peace, or hope to live in mutual charity ? The plot has not merely been betrayed by chance—it has been ostentatiously and scornfully paraded. In open defiance of a nation of Protestants, con spiracy has burst out into rebellion. The crosier and the pike.are brandished over our heads in concert; and again, it is the cause of " religious liberty," whose advancement is blasphemously invoked, and in whose blessed name we and hu many are insulted ! But there is still something beyond. Among all the thirteen resolutions on which is to be built this vast edifice of " satisfaction," we look in vain from the first to the thirteenth inclusive for that one fundamental, indispensable, vital principle of appropriation. All, indeed, is to be converted, but nothing ostensibly taken away unccrm rnsated over and above that 30 per cent. by which it was proposed on former occasions that the Clergy should be, mulcted in consideration of an increased security for their in comes. But if there be no plunder after the nibbling fashion of 1835, there is a good deal wore ; for there is wholesale. barefaced, unmitigated confi'cation. The existing revenues of the Church are turned over bodily to the payment of a police force, of which the entire appointment, dismissal, patronage, and control, will be in the Romish agitators, and, like the schoolmaster, in the Bishops M'Hale, Murray, and Co. It is, as we told the public three weeks ago; the scheme con_ cocted by Mr. Daniel O'Connell for giving " security" Lo the Protestant Church, and by him imposed upon his grovel /Mg minions in the Cabinet. It gives the Church revenues in the shape of rent, charge to the Romish police, as locust tenentes for the Romish pricsthcod, who are, as we sail before, to be made landed proprietors, while the humbled Protestant clergy arc to be cast down into creeping pensioners, crawling before a Finance or Civil List Committee for their daily' bread. The mixture of iniquity and effrontery in this mea sure will soon, we are aware, dispose ot' it. But in the course of the debates which it must of necessity, if only proji,rnut, t:niergo, we trust that some shrewd Member of Parliament will put it broadly to O'Connell, whether this, too, like past measures of Church adjustment for giving " satisfaction t the people of Ireland," is n purely another " instalment ;" for sure we are—nay, as well satisfied as of our own being-- that yet a further adjustment is already resolved on in the. Popish Cabinet after this—namely, a measure for expelling; the Butestint clergy front their glebes, and transferring them to the Maynooth-bred pupils and dependents of Drs. M‘flalc and Murray. Let it be watched, that's all.— Times. Last night the adjourned debate on Lord Eliot's motion was brought to an abrupt and rather ludicrous conclusion. The Orders of the Day and preliminary business of the House hewing been disposed of, the Speaker formally read the reso- . . . lution moved by Lord Eliot, am! as Mr. Shed had spoken last on the previou , niAlit in opposition to the motion, and etoosed in a brilliant speech the malevolence and turpitude of the mo tives acwating its supportira, it wss of course expected that some Tory Member would have spoken in reply. But the Oppo.,i!ion benches a;pcared affected with an unusual tacitur ni'y, and an awful pause, during which the Teies looked at; . each other in vain for a speech, - having folloWed the reading of the rusAution, the Speaker put the question, when the ayes being declared in a raino..-ity, a division was called -for, and the result was as follows : For the motion Against it Majority 6'2 • 70 But this did not conclude the proceeding. The Tories de clar..tl they were taken by surprise. Lord Mahon modestly, and with great simplicity, demanded that the. debate should be resumed. - Sir H. Peel stated that an Honourable Member lad expressed to him an intention of opening the debate, and e was astonished on arriving at the House to find that no speech had been forthcoming - , and that a division had taken plsce. ,Lord. Eliot admitted with amusing candour that he intended to have cast censure on the Government, and hoped that to effect a purpose so desirahli., the debate would be al lowed to be continued on some verbal amendment to the original motion. This hint was eagerly adopted by Lord Mahon, who made a motion in accordance with it, Lord John Russell professed the utmost readiness to take the most ample sense of the House upon a ques tion so deeply involving • the foreign policy of the coun try. But the mischief likely to result from such a pre cedent as re-opening a debate after the question had been decided, was too apparent to allow the question to be en tertained ; and after a brief discussion, and some hearty laughing on one side of the ll,use, and a few painful contortions of countenance on the other, Lord Mahon with- drew his prop ,2sition to fight the battle over again, the House adjourned, and thus endad the third attempt by which the Tories have endeavoured effect that to them most desirable y consummation—the expulsion o: Ministers from office. The have now assailed the Government on cl Irish , the Colonial , and the Foreign Administrations—a breau..l' was attempted even by means of the Poor Law Amendment Act . - - but all to no effect. Their weapons have recoiled upon themselv,;:; but this last defeat, to lose a victory merely from . the want. of a speech, of which there is such a redundant supply in the mar. , ket, and of which, fruits the drivelling Burdett to the hullf,cyg; D'lsraeli, there are so many rival manufacturers on the Tory benches is the most vexatious and mortifying of all. What a pity that - Peter Borthwick is.not s.i!l a M-mber of the House, or that the Tories had not purchased a speech from_hini for the nonce, and confided its delivery to some of the senatorial scions who droop in melancholy silence and - never tell their pa triotism, but pine in thought, without a single hope of office or any of its agreeable concomitants to cheer their couttiik. plations.—Morning Advertiser. en.feir:Tale chel, It was with considerable reluctance we were inducedtae.. n.l' we may tan add d p er , to cast aside the "grey.gco4o quill , " for t h e . Three.reinted Pcrryian Pen, the more modern and fash io na b le invention of James Perry and 'Co. ; but s o rapid have been the strides of s 1: these gentlemen towards improvement , f e etion, that we do not scruple to own they have not only i quished our old-fashioned n otio n s, but they als o Chester Assizs comme nce on veiled in the estimation of innumerable - scribes, both real e ar i d adar is heavy. There arerl,.-7 Saturday next. T Fisoners for.tri3l, aLd the off:I - tees are cf a serious de.ieriptt ~.:.